Something Quotes
39668 quotes by 14182 authors
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When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
— Pamela Ribon
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I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's…
— Greg LeMond
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
— Norman Mailer
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To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.
— Nancy Friday
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We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the…
— Joan D. Chittister
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You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of…
— Walter Lippmann
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I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and give our fast…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.
— David Frum
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Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with…
— Saint Augustine
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If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows suffering. By miracles…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in…
— Miguel Indurain
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
— Indira Gandhi
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At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
— M.C. Escher
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When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.
— Pablo Picasso
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All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality…
— Lee Krasner
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The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as…
— Abraham Maslow
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What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and…
— Marc Chagall
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There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.
— Philip Guston
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I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny,…
— Paul Klee
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